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Senator roiiieroy 

COMPILED FROJI 

EDITORIALS AND CORRESPONDENCE 

OF THE INDEPENDENT 

Republicaiv Newspaper Press 

Of Kansas and other States. 



rUBLTSIIKD AT 

THE NEMAILl COURIER OFFICE. 

" SENA C A , KANSAS. 
1867. 






INTRODUCTION. 



It is well known that a very wide dissatisfaction 
exists among the people of Kansas, in regard to the 
course of Senator Pomeroy. 

Full two-thirds of the Radical press and people are 
opposed to his re-election; though the contrary is in- 
sisted upon by the Pomeroy organs and Copperhead 
press ef Lawrence, 

To show how universally the dissatisfaction exists, 
this pamphlet has been compiled from the columns of 
staunch Republican newspapers, and the Official Records 
of Congress. 



THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. 



2,500 MORE OUT OP EMPLOYMENT. 

A letter dated December 7, from the owner of one of the 
largest woolen mills at Colioes, in Albany county, has been 
shown to us, in which the writer says: 

" The knitting mills here are all practically stopped ; that is, some are entirely 
stopped, and the others are what we term ' running out.' So, in a week or 
two at the furthest, from 2,000 to 2,500 hands tvill be out of employment, and 
$1,500,000 of capital will be lying idle, and the Government revenue tax from 
the Cohocs mills will be cut off, and great suffering and loss Mill ensue. We 
should have instant relief. As far as the woolen manufacture is concerned, justice 
to us and duty so the country requires the Senate to pass the tariff voted b}^ the 
House last summer. In other localities in this State beside Cohoes the woolen 
mills are stopping, and the general feeling is that, with our present taxes and 
insufficient tariff, it is useless for us to attempt to compete with foreign manufac- 
turers." 

Congress was created to provide for the general welfare, 
and yet the representatives of from 2,000 to 2,500 working 
people in a single village in New York fall on their knees to 
Congress and pray for legislation to enable them to keep at 
work and to live ! 

Woolen mills are failing almost daily all over the country. 
It is admitted by those connected icith the trade that there has 
not been such a prostration of business since the terrible year of 
1857. And the reason is manifest, and was made manifest 
by predictions at Washington last July, over, and over, 
and over. The importations of loool and woolens for 1866 
have amounted to $67,087,957. For twenty years preceding 
the year 1862 the importations of woolens averaged only 
$19,000,000 a year. 

Gentlemen of the Finance Committee of the Senate, this 
is no fancy picture. It represents the condition of the 
woolen interest throughout the country. It is perishing of 



foreign importations. In the names of the hundreds of 
thousands of men, women, and children whose bread for the 
coming winter depends u]i)on the profitable running of our 
cloth mills — in the behalf of the enterpiising capitalists who 
have embarked their fortunes in woolen machinery— m the 
names of our toool-groivers, and for the sake of our revenues, 
we demand of you to speedily apply a remedy to the evils 
which threaten a national disastar. You have that remedy 
at your hand. Report the House tariff bill which the Senate 
unwisely hung up in your committee room last July, and 
urge its immediate passage. The rates of duty on wool and 
woolen goods, with the classification of both, contained in 
that bill, will save the country from the misfortunes of a 
stoppage of its woolen manufacture, and save the political 
pai'ty responsible for your legislation from the dread account- 
ability, to a considerable })ortion of the people, for taking 
from them their daily labor and their daily bread. YVe en- 
treat you to pass that bill. 

The 'people in the difffrent States icho are threatened with 
loss of work this icinter, hy the dosing of the looolen mills, may 
have a desire to represent their sufferings and their rights to 
the Sencdors tvho defeated the tariff last July. ]Ve append a 
list of the yeas and nays on the vote to j^osfpone the hill. 



In the list which followed the above editorial, Senator S. 
C. Vo^iEROY, from Kansas, is found voting against the home 
wool interest. He is found voting with the copperheads, 
Doolittle, Guthrie, Hendricks, Saulsbury, Davis, Johnson, 
and a few Republicans opposed to protecting the wool growers 
as well as manufacturers. S. C. Pomeroy is found voting 
against Anthony, Chandler, (Mich.,) Clark, Conness, (Cal.,) 
Cragin, Fessenden, Howard, (Mich.,) Howe, (Wis.,) Poland, 
(Yt.,) Ramsey, (Minn.,) Sherman, Ben. Wade, and all other 
Republicans friendly to both the avooI growing and tlie 
manufacturing interest. 



WANTS AUGUMENT. 

The effervescent editor of the Champion is anxious to see 
a reasonable charge advanced against Senator Pomeroy. 
Either the little Atchison "hangman" has not read the 
many truthful charges that have been made against Pome- 
roy, is wilfully blind to truth and reason, or too stupid to 
understand their meaning. We cannot believe the latter. 
At any rate, he denies that there has been a single fault de- 
tected in his idol, Pomeroy; and in commenting upon tlie 
position of the Republican newspapers of Kansas, says that 

" Not a single one of them has yet advanced a reasonable charge against Sena- 
tor Pomeroy. Not one of them has been able to point out a blot or a fault in his 
political record during his term as Senator. Not one of them has been able to 
question his fidelity to principle or assail his devotion to the cherished faith of 
the llepublican party. But for want of augument to sustain their sinking cause, 
the^- substitute such methods of attack as the above ! The only effect of such a 
system of warfare will be to disgust the people, and aid those against whom its 
fury is directed. It furnishes its own antidote, and therefore needs no repl}'." 

We did not believe tliat the editor of the Champion , or any 
other Kansas editor, had the face to make so unfounded an 
assertion. The number of llepublican papers in Kansas 
that do not support Pomeroy is rather large, and their op- 
position since the opening of this campaign has been founded 
on good invincible facts. 

For our part, we have several times referred to the recorded 
fact that Pomeroy while in the United States Senate, for 
the purpose of furthering his own selfish interests, stated 
that Atchison was directly opposite St. Joseph. It was by 
this means that he obtained the one hundred miles of land 
grant and the bonus of $16,000 to 80 miles of railroad ! 

We have referred oft and again to Pomeroy's efforts at 
Washington to defeat the land grant bill to the Northern 
Kansas railroad. And why ? Because that road would not 
be a pecuniary benefit to Mr. Pomeroy ! 

We have repeatedly shown up the execrable falsehoods of 
that miserably bad man in his many promises to people of 
various localities that they should be the recipients of his 
Almighty railroad ! And why has he made these promises? 
To secure the suftVage of the representatives of these various 
localities for his election for Senator only. 



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The fact that he sought to defeat the noble and martyred 
Lincoln, by undermining him with secret circulars from 
Washington, has been so often repeated through the news- 
paper colums that by this time it ought to ring in Pomeroy's 
ears as a political death knell of retribution. 

It is well understood, and has been oft spoken of and 
never denied, that if Pomeroy is defeated for a re-election to 
the United States Senate, he will soon after become a resi- 
dent of Massachusetts. And we have had enough of hiring 
men to stop in Kansas, as in the case of Congressmen 
Wilder, Conway, and others ! 

The under-estimate placed upon our State in other States, 
by Mr. Pomeroy for speculation and political capital's sake, 
during the year of partial drought, has not been forgotten, 
and its dire effects are yet felt. 

If pinning a man down ivith the truth of his utter disregard 
of honesty and the great and high piincij^les of puhlic duty: if 
showing up the treachery and deceit of a p)uhlic functionary ; if 
a narration of a man' s p)olitical trickery, is not argument, then 
language is a hoax, and official capacities under our free gov- 
ernment a decided nuisance. 

But ih.Q Cho.mpion man cannot stand the ordeal of having 
his pet, Pomeroy, shown up according to his true merits. He 
quotes a small attempt of ours to be a wee bit pungent, but 
takes good care not to copy any of the direct facts that we 
have repeatedly administered to the people as regards the 
character of this man Pomeroy; and with a tenacity that is 
only equalled by his adherence to a little "postorfis" at 
Atchison, he snaps at the little anti-Pomeroy crumbs that 
fall from the editorial table, in which no real harm is meant, 
but carefully avoids tackling any of the more solid and con- 
vincing truths that are promulgated. — Marysville Enter- 
prise. 

MR. POMEROY'S CHAMPIONS. 



For the information of the Nemaha Courier we would state 
that no such person as Lewis M. Coxsetta, a rebel privateers- 
man, ever lived in Atchison. We will further state that 



Senator Pomeroy never either recommended or advised the 
pardon of Lewis M. Coxsetta. The Courier s whole story is 
simply a lie, manufactured out of whole cloth. — Atchison 
Champion, Dec. 20. 



Upon the recommendation of Senator Pomeroy, who made 
a personal aj^plicatioii to the President for the p)ardon of Lewis 
M. Coxsetta, a privateersraan during the late war, the latter 
has received the desired Executive clemency. This is the 
first and only case of any officer of that condition having 
been pardoned by the President. — N. Y. Tribune, May, 
1866. 



The truth is. Senator Pomeroy never knew Coxzetta at all, 
or anything of the matter until he saw a notice of it in the 
Trihuue. It is simply a mistake. He had no connection with 
the matter at all. — Manhattan Independent. 

The focts are that this man Coxsetta, formerly a citizen 
of Atchison, applied to Mr. Pomeroy for an introduction to 
the President with a recommendation for pardon. Mr. P. 
at last agreed to introduce him to the President's Private 
Secretary, as a rebel Privateersman, without recommenda- 
tion; which he did, and nothing further. If further testi- 
mony is required on this point, reference may be made to 
Capt, Grulish, who Avas present, and personally cognizant of 
the whole transaction. — "Vindex," Washington Correspon- 
dent of the Atchison Free Press, Nov. 1866. 



We will not quarrel with that most contemptible of con- 
cerns, the Atchison Champion, on its charge of "lie, manu- 
factured out of whole cloth," but simply produce the above 
paragraphs and let our readers judge for themselves. The 
presumption, sneaking meanness and rascality of both the 
Chamjjion and Pomeroy in tliis whole transaction has been 
such as to deprive them of all credit for truth and fairness. 

In view of the Champion's charge, will it have the manli- 
ness to lay before its readers the four first paragraphs of this 
article ? — Nemaha Courier. 



SENATOR POMEROY. 



There are a few facts in relation to our Senator and railroad 
inieresls that ought to be more widely known. 

First. The public are being very much deceived by the 
Honorable Senator and his friends. 

Second. The building of Senator Pomeroy's railroad, the 
Atchison & P. P., after having received aid from all sources 
outside of the State, to the amount of about $45,000 per mile, 
for eighty miles, Irom Saint Joseph via Atchison — has been 
strangely delayed ; for, while the Union Pacific has nearly 
two hundred miles completed, the A. & P. P. is finished only 
forty miles from Atchison. 

Third. Senator Pomeroy's road has heen 2yi'omi'Sed hy the 
president and his friends to be located, from its present ter- 
mini, to all points on the Big Blue between Manhattan and 
Marysville. The Senator promised to run it to Irving ; also 
to Manhattan ; while others are confident it will run North- 
west to Marysville, and up the Republican to Fort Kearney. 

Fourth. Manifestly^ the road has been unnecessarily kept 
back, that it might be promised to all sections of the State 
north of the Kaw valley and west of the present termini of 
the road. 

Fifth. Our Senator evidently intends to obtain a re-election 
by promises he never can, and never intends to fulfil. 

Sixth. Senator Pomeroy is bound to be defeated, and he 
knows it, all confident boasts to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Seventh. Mr. Pomeroy's "Champion" is perfectly frantic 
at the idea of our road obtaining any aid from the State. 
After obtaining all the aid needed for their own road, the 
Senator's friends are bound to strangle ours. We shall see. 
Our first duty is to defeat Senator Pomeroy — a duty that will 
be performed. 

We shall refer to this subject again soon — Tro7j Ileporter, 
Nov. 22. 



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In every political contest we have taken part in, during 
the past ten years, we have been successful, and have now 
no idea of being defeated with any combination whatever. 

We are aware that Senator Pomeroy has his hirelings in 
every part of the State, promising that his railroad shall run 
to all points on the Big Blue between Manhattan and Marys- 
ville, and offering to make combination with every prominent 
candidate. All of which are cheats. 

Senator Pomeroy's company own a franchise of one hun- 
dred miles from St. Joseph, by way of Atchison, wliich will 
connect his road with the Union Pacific Eastern Division 
about ten or fifteen miles west of Topeka ; and all these lying 
promises about its branches to all points on the Big Blue are 
unmitigated swindles. 

We caution our people and members of the Legislature 
against all railroad promises, from Pomeroy tricks, as well 
as their offers of combinations. — Nemaha Courier-. 



Senator Pomeroy ou the Kansas Wool Growing Interests. 



Our readers will perhaps remember we published a 
lengthy article in the Courier of March 22d, showing over 
one-half'tlie wool used in this country was raised by the 
semi-barbaric tribes of South America and other foreign 
countries, and imported into the country under a tax of about 
three cents per pound, thus competing with our Kansas 
wool gi'owers without sharing any of our burdens of govern- 
ment, other than the light tax of three cents per pound on 
the foreign wool imported into this country. 

We also showed that the only way to remedy this evil was 
to take a portion of the tax from Kansas grown wool, and 
increase the tax on foreign imported wool. 

This method would increase the profits of the Kansas wool 
grower without increasing the price of avooI^ or decreasing 
the revenues of the Government. 

Thus the interest of the government, the wool producer, 
and wool consumer would all be subserved. 



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The position we took was sustained by all the statesmen in 
the United States, and opposed by all the copperheads in the 
United States Senate ; by Mr. Pomeroy and a few republicans 
wholly committed against the wool growing interest. There- 
fore it comes to pass, that Mr. Pomeroy will not be returned 
to the United States Senate unless he can again very much 
deceive the people of this State. — Nemaha Courier. 



FROM WASHINGTON. 

Congress Harmonious on the Great Question— Senator Pome- 
roy's three-fold Defence— Its many Discrepencies exposed— 
The Senator's action in the Rebel Pardon business, and in the 
Cherokee Land transaction— Senator Pomeroy, and his De- 
fenders again obliterated— More men like Governor Carney 
and Col. Phillips needed here— Less Speeches and more work. 

Special Correspondence of tlie Times. 

Washington, Dec. 14, 1866. 

It is hardly time to expect any results from the proceed- 
ings of Congress; and until then I will devote the space as- 
signed to me to matters of especial interest to the people of 
Kansas. Remarking here, however, that appearances now 
indicate a harmonious and useful session. The members 
have returned strengthed in their positions, and with the ex- 
ception of Senator Pomeroy, and a few like him, seem anx- 
ious to work for the good of our whole country. 

SENATOR POMEROY'S PARDON BROKERAGE. 

The New York Tribune states that: — 

" Upon the recommendation ofSenator Pomeroy, irho made apersotial applica- 
tion to the President /or the pardon of Lewis M. Coxsetta of South Carolina, a priva- 
teersman during the late war, the latter has received the desired Executive cle- 
mencj. This is the first and only case of any officer of that condition having 
been pardoned by the President.'' 

The Nemaha Courier, in commenting upon the Tribunes 
statement, says : 

" So ! So ! We see our very radical Senator Pomeroy, who never tires of de- 
nouncing, before his constituents, the 'traitorous course of President Johnson," 
is yet on sufficient good terms with his Excellency to obtain the only pardon 
given to a rebel pirate traitor ! 

"Here is evidently the milk iu the coeoa-irut ! We wonder if our Senator did 
not, while procuring a jtardon for a ixTiW or, jvst suggest, to his Excellency the 



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President, the propriety of removing from his office the editor of the Lawrence 
Tribune and of retaining in office the editor of the kicWxson Champion. Be- 
cause why ? The latter advocates Mr. Pomeroy's re-election, and the former don't. 

" Come, come, friend Martin, own up. You did not, we think, attend the 
Philadelphia, August 14, Convention: but on the contrary, if we remember 
rightly, you committed the crime of denouncing that pure hearted, silent, and 
enduring body of patriots, for whicii we greatly wonder the earth did not open 
and swallow you up. 

" Now then, who procured your pardon and retention in oflice? If it was 
Senator Pomeroy, you need not be ashamed to own it. That gentleman's chan- 
ces for re-election have gone up; not a ghost of a chance left, so you need not 
keep the secret longer. 

" We wish most distinctly to be understood that Mr. Pomeroy is not to be 
blamed for his two-faced hypocritical disposition, or his political position, 
practically, but secretly', on the fence between two great contending parties of 
our time, ready to lake to himself whatever advantage may come within his 
reach from either side. 

" He was born with his treacherous disposition, and it is his right to have a 
good secret understanding with the enemy, so as to be right side up, which ever 
side win.f. 

" We do, however, most decidedly object, here and now, henceforth and else- 
wheie, to having such men in the United States Senate." 

Now Senator Pomeroy and his friends have set up very 
many lines of defence against this charge; but they seem to 
forget to make them agree; in fact they are utterly de- 
moralized. 

Defence No. 1.— The Manhattan Independent states that 
Senator Pomeroy never knew anything about the matter un- 
til he saw it in the N. Y. Tribune; never knew Coxsetta at 
all, and hates rebels like pizen, &c., &c. 

Defence No. 2. — The Atchison Free Press states that Sena- 
tor Pomeroy did know all about it; but virtuously refused to 
aid the rebel to get a pardon, until he was so importuned 
that he finally introduced him to President Johnson's pri- 
vate secretary, who in turn introduced him to the President, 

Defence No. 3, — Has not yet been seen in print but is 
floating about the political and social circles of this metropo- 
lis, Mr, Pomeroy, so I am informed upon good autliority, 
states that he didn't introduce the rebel pirate to President 
Johnson's private secretary, only introduced him to another 
friend, who in turn took him to the President's private 
secretarv. 



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In fact there is no doubt but the statement of the New 
York Tribune's editor is correct, as quoted. Senator Pome- 
roy and his friends may wriggle as raucli as they please, they 
cannot get out of it. What does Senator Pomeroy say ? 

THE CHEROKEE NEUTRAL LANDS. 

The same discrepancy is observable in the various defen- 
ces put forth in the Pomeroy interest to hoodwink the people 
in regard to the Pomeroy-Harlan Cherokee land atrocity 
that I have exposed in the above. 

Mr. Pomeroy' s McBratney says: 

Junction City, Oct, 19th, 18GG. 

Ed. Times — I to-day called the attention of Senator Pomeroy 
to the articles which appeared in your issues of tlie ITtli 
and 18th inst., in relation to the sale of so-called Cherokee 
"Neutral Lands," and he desires me to make the following 
correction. 

After making a vain attempt at defence his faithful Pome- 
roy an concludes as follows: 

Senator Pomeroy denies, distinctly and emphatically, that 
he had any knowledge of the existence of the Connecticut 
Company, or the proposed sale, until his attention was called 
to them by the newspaper articles on the subject. How 
Kansas Senators are to beheld responsible for the acts of the 
Executive officers over whom they had no control, and of 
which acts they are ignorant, is not very appai'ent. 

Yours, &c., R. McBratney, 

The Times readers will bear in mind that Mr. Pomeroy 
"denies distinctly and emphatically any knowledge of the 
Connecticut Company, or the proposed sale." 

Now please to observe that ex-Secretary Harlan, in rush- 
ing to his confederate's (Pomeroy) rescue, distinctly jiroves 
that Senator Pomeroy did know all about the transaction ! I 
Writing from Washington to a friend, Taylor, (what Tay- 
lor, I wonder, Hawkins ?) the Hon. Ex-Secretary says: 

Washington City, D. C, October 30, 186G. 

Friend Taylor — I have received your letter of the 25th 
inst., in relation to the sale of Cherokee Neutral Lands. 



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In reply, I have to say that I do uot believe Senator Ponic- 
roy or any other citizen of Kansas has, or sought to have, 
any interest whatever in their sale. 

I remember interrogating him on tlie subject of theii- 
quality and relative value. He gave me the information I 
sought with his usual frankness, but manifested no other in- 
terest in the subject, except that the settlers should be pro- 
tected as far as practicable under the treaty. 

I unite witli you in congratulations over the result of the 
October elections, and in prayer to the Supreme Ruler that 
those to occur on the 6th of November may be as eqiuilly 
})ropitious. 

Yours truly, James Harlan. 

Docs the Pomeroy wing think the people of Kansas sucli 
fools as not to see the atrocious discrepancy in these state- 
ments ? 

Plain proof on the face of both that one of them must be a 
lie outright ! 

Observe the Pecksniffian hypocrisy exhibited by the ex- 
Secretary in uniting, in congratulation and prayer to the 
Supreme Being with Hawkins Taylor! What exemplary 
piety! 

Far be it from me to ridicule anything really religious and 
good; but I do detest that bogus piety that lifts its eyes up- 
ward whenever engaged in any scoundrelism, like the Pome- 
roy, Harlan Cherokee land affair. 

The settlers on the Cherokee Neutral lands, and all their 
friends, must bear in mind that their rights are by no means 
secure. 

The opinion of the Attorney Grcneral is by no means bind- 
ing. The courts or Congress can overrule it. 

That greedy company of Connecticut speculators are not 
disposed to thus easily give up their prey. 

Eight hundred thousand acres of the choicest lands in 
Kansas, that will sell for at least eight hundred thousand 
dollars, will not be given up without a desperate struggle. 
The Connecticut company will swarm the lobby of Congress, 
backed by the influence of man who lend their good names, 
without exactly knowing for what. The matter will not 



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probably be acted upon this short session; but it' tiie people 
of Kansas, the whole State, desire their interests looked after, 
they must recall the shyster Pomeroy, and send in his place 
some good, active business man, like Gov. Carney, Col. 
W. A. Phillips, or any two sound business men the legisla- 
ture can agree upon. 

What Kansas needs here is business men. National 
legislation is business, and nothing else. Speeches are of no 
account whatever; only a waste of time. The contrary 
opinion, I know, prevails to some extent; but it is being very 
generally corrected. 

Since Senator Pomeroy and his ring have opened their 
eyes to the fact that over two-thirds of the Ptepublican press 
in Kansas, and nearly the entire Republican press outside 
the State are opposed to Mr. Pomeroy's re-election, they are 
working more silently. The fact is becoming more and 
more apparent, that the people have found out the humbug- 
gery that has been practised towards them. 

This being the case, the members of the Kansas Legisla- 
ture are warned that hordes of lies will be set afloat by the 
satraps of Senator Pomeroy, to influence their action. I 
have, in this, exposed pretty thoroughly the utter falsity of 
Mr. Pomeroy's newspaper statements, and doubtless pretty 
mucli silenced them. Now look out for the next move of the 
ring. 

THE OPINION OF AN OLD FREIGHTER. 

St. Joseph, Mo., November 19, 1866. 
Friend Peters — I find Senator Pomeroy is trying all he 
can to influence the Legislature, through the press, and 
public opinion in favor of himself, and against General Lee. 
For instance, I met a man on Saturday last, near Seneca, 
representing himself as engineer of the A. & P. P. R. R., 
who was telling the people that his road was going to turn 
and go up the Republican to Kearney. In fact our shyster- 
ing Senator appears to have kept his road back so as to 
promise it to run to all points on the Big Blue. The people 
of Manhattan and Irving are sure of it ; should not wonder 



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if there arc some dampliools in Marysville that will be 
brought to believe it is coming to your burg. 

Now, the fact is, the road will go soutJnvest from its present 
terminus to the Union Pacific, a little east of Manhattan, 
and all are cheated. 

It may not be amiss to state here that I am a resident of 
Kansas, and that I feel considerably interested in her rail- 
road enterprises, and^ from my frequent business trips across 
the country of Northern Kansas and the plains, I am enabled 
to form a pretty correct idea of Poraeroy's plans to gain a 
re-election, and that the A. & P. P. R. R. (or Central 
Branch, as it is termed) is merely a political tool in his com- 
mand to possess himself of that which he is unworthy of in 
every particular. 

Very respectfully, R. A, C. 



FOREIGN CANDIDATES. 

Americus, Lyon County, Kansas, > 
November 15, 1866. \ 

Editor Emporia News — Is it necessary that a United States 
Senator should live in Kansas, or can we just as well elect 
men living in New Orleans or Boston? Must Senators be 
electors ? I am induced to ask these questions because men 
are talked of for the position Avho are not residents of our 
State. 

Our laws in reference to candidates and voters says a man's 
home shall be considered where his family resides. Senator 
Pomeroy's family resides in Boston, Massachusetts. They 
have a house there — are not boarding, but housekeeping. 
It is their permanent residence. Pomeroy is in business in 
Boston, and also in New York. He has no residence in 
Kansas— is not, under our laws, a citizen of Kansas — is not 
a legal voter here. Mr. Pomeroy is not a qualified voter in 
our State. Is he eligible as candidate for the United States 
Senate ? 



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FROM WASHINGTON. 

Hon. S. C. Pomeroy's Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission 
—An Earnest Protest Against His Return to the Senate— 
And Reasons Given— Unnecessary Taxation— Mr. Pomeroy's 
Course in Increasing His Own Pay— And His Treachery to 
Every Cause and Interest Except His Own Pecuniary In- 
terest, &c. 

Special Correspondence of the Times. 

Washington, November 1, 1866. 

In my last I promised a further criticism upon lioii. S. C. 
Pomeroy's sins of omission ; on his congressional sliort-coni- 
ings and overgoings. 

SEXATUll POMEROY NEGLECTS HIS DUTIES. 

It is v/ell known tiiat tlie tax imposed on the nation to aid 
in putting down the copperhead rebellion was greater than 
that imposed upon any other nation now in existence, being 
at the rate of some sixteen and one half dollars per head of 
our entire po})ulation. One third greater tlian tliatof (jrreat 
Britain, and one half higlier than France. 

I don't know tliat any but copperheads comphiined of this 
icar tax so long as it was necessary to keep the armies in the 
field. But surely it was Ihe duty of every member of Con- 
gress to ask lor its reduction at the earliest possible period. 

After the disbandment of our grand army of patriots, in 
June, 1865, it was found that the national income, under 
the war tax, was lull Five Hundred and Fifty j\Iillion Dol- 
lars ($550,000,000) per year. 

This ponderous tax is so assessed that it is felt as a crush- 
ing burden by the people. There are seventeen distinct 
taxes on an umbrella, fifteen on a book, from ten to sixteen 
on agricultural implements, &c., &c. Even articles on the 
•' free list " are taxed at some early stage of their manufac- 
ture. 

The result of all this multiplicity of taxes is an increased 
price of every article of consumption, without a correspond- 
ing increased |)rofit to the producer. In short, from one 
third to one half the tax paid by the citizens of Kansas for 



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whatever they buy is tax — mere tax, and nothing else^ — as- 
sessed at different periods upon the articles in (Question. 

Now, can any one inform me what Senator Pomeroy has 
done towards the reduction of our crushing and wholly un- 
necessary war tax? Nothing, absolutely nothing. 

Since May, 1865, our people have been taxed twice as high 
as the needs of our Government required, because we had 
too many men like Senator Pomeroy. 

We are now being taxed at the rate of $600,000,000 per 
year, wliile our national expenses, including $1,000,000 per 
week towards paying our national debt, is about $300,000,000. 
Exactly twice as much as there is any need of. All because 
we have shysters like Pomeroy in Congress, who pay more 
attention to private than public legislation. 

Instead of our rate of taxation being reduced, it has been 
increased, so that some ffty million dollars more will he taken 
from the j^eople this year than last, and, as I have already 
shown, twice as much as is needed for all expenses of the 
Government, besides the payment of ten hundred thousand 
dollars per week on our war debt ! ! 

Why are the people thus taxed double the necessary rates? 
The answer is obvious : It is so that Senators who disgrace 
their calling can help themselves from the people's treasury ! 

Is Mr. Senator Pomeroy one of this class? We shall see. 

The Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad, of which Mr. 
Pomeroy 's home organ, the Champion, states that the hon- 
orable Senator owns " hut one sixteenth interest ," has received 
a LOAN from our national treasury of sixteen thousand dollars 
per mile for its first one hundred miles — or sixteen hundred 
thousand dollars in all — of which Senator Pomeroy 's share, 
according to the Champion, is $100,000. This is called a 
" loan," to be sure; but, as the people are only secured by a 
second morigage on the road, it is plain that it will amount 
to a free gift. 

Senator Pomeroy has also received a magnificent land 
grant for his road — a free gift — of which his share may be 
said to be, at least, one hundred thousand dollars. Besides 
which he voted with the Democracy, as I have shown in pre- 



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vious letters, to help himself to an additional $2,000 by way 
of salary. 

So that Senator Pomeroy's account with the people's 
treasury may be said to st«ind as follows: 

Washington, March 4, 1867. 
Senator S. C. Pomeroy^ 

To THE United States Treasury. Dr. 

Negro Colonization §25,000 00 

A.&P. P. Loan, (the Senators share) 100,000 00 

Land Grant, (Senator's share) 100,000 00 

Six years' salary ami picking 25,000 00 

Total $250,000 00 

Cr. 
By six years' service, at — say time worth §1,200 per year $7,200 00 

Balance due the people from Senator Pomeroy $242,800 00 

This may all be very profitable to Senator Pomeroy, but 
the people are taxed just this much more to enrich their 
Senator. Neither does the above account represent the Gov- 
ernment loan for internal improvements, but Senator Pom- 
eroy's acknowledged share. 

The A. & P. P. road has the same loan per mile as the 
U. P. and branches, that have now five hundred miles in 
operation, while the Senator's foot-ball road has but sixty, 
thus showing plainly that, but for the Senator's sixteenth 
interest, the road should have had its whole hundred miles 
finished long ago. 

Senators have been condemned for having interests in 
contracts, or for helping rebels. How much more culpable 
is Mr. Pomeroy, the shyster, for neglecting the cause of 
freedom, as well as the interests of the people of Kansas, to 
feather his own nest. 

Mr. Pomeroy pretends that he knew nothing of the Cher- 
okee land sale. Wh}^, sir, I should not believe him under 
oath. That transaction was as well known in Washington 
as the Civil Rights bill. 

Mr. Pomeroy puts out his great card, his devotion to the 
cause of freedom and equal suffrage. Let us give his claims 
on this point a thorough examination. 



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I see that resolutions were passed at few of the recent 
county Republican meetings in Kansas, something like the 
following : 

"Resolved, That onr thanks are due to Senator Pomeroy for his refusal to en- 
dorse the policy of President Johnson, and his adherence to the cause of impartial 
freedom.'' 

I am bound to believe that these resolutions emanate from 
good, sound, and true Republicans, and^ it is no disparage- 
ment to their adroitness to add, who have been deceived by 
the political trickster. 

Our sharp-sighted railroad men detect Mr. Pomeroy's 
hypocrisy, whenever he professes any great regard for any 
road that competes with the Atchison & Pike's Peak. Why 
can they not see that the buncombe speeches for equal rights 
that these half-breed copperheads indulge in, and an occa- 
sional vote for freedom, is also the sheerest hj'^pocrisy? 

It is doubtless because the motive is not as apparent. 

I charge Mr. Pomeroy with being false to the cause of 
human freedom, and that all his profession of friendship 
for the cause is mere buncombe to catch radical votes. 

A careful examination of the congressional record of this 
unfaithful public servant will sustain my charge. Let us see. 

I am one of those who believe that an intelligent private 
soldier wlio served his full term of enlistment in Governor 
Crawford's regiment has a better right to vote or hold office 
than any pardoned rebel who served under "^^ Colonel " 
Quantrell. This is putting the question mildly. Now let 
us examine the record of Mr. Pomeroy upon it, for he had 
full opportunity to show his lack of faith and bogus radicalism. 

There are in the District of Columbia full one thousand 
discharged Union colored soldiers, who have few rights ex- 
cept those given them by the laws of Maryland before that 
State ceded a portion of its domain to the National Govern- 
ment. Now, however. Congress is the onh/ law-making 
power of the District. 

Under the present laws, returned rebel soldiers have the 
full right to vote here ; and last December a law was intro- 
duced into Congress establishing impartial suffrage in this 



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District, a law giving the black Union soldier an equal right 
with the white rebel. That law passed the House, and went 
to the Senate, where it sleeps to this day, it never having 
been called up. 

Mr. Pomeroy cannot humbug me by saying that he made 
a speech for the bill, for I know it ; and I know, also, that 
he didn't work for it, didn't follow it to the Senate and use 
his personal influence to have it called up, didn't work for 
it with that earnestness which he did for the Doolittle-Pom- 
eroy Indian appropriations. 

When freedom comes to Congress Mr. Pomeroy gives him 
a little speech ; but when swindling contractors crack their 
whip — when Mr. Doolittle wants to get an Indian appropri- 
ation of half a million through — Mr. Pomeroy is all attention 
to follow the bill from the House to the Senate, and vice versa. 

I have watched the course of Mr. Pomeroy with the closest 
attention, and I have observed that he devoted nearly all his 
time to schemes of private legislation, and has given to free- 
dom an occasional speech or an indifferent vote. 

Is any one fool enough to believe that if Mr. Pomeroy, 
with the other half-breed copperheads, had worked one or 
two days with half the earnestness for the District of Colum- 
bia Equal Suffrage Bill that they did for any of the private 
bills with which they were interested, that it would not 
have gone through? No, sir. 

This shows that neither Pomeroy or his ring really care 
for equal suffrage ; they merely use it to get themselves votes 
in radical districts^ and to drive the Irish vote over to the 
copperheads wherever Pomeroy men are not put in nomina- 
tion for the Legislature, as they did at the recent election. 



The welfare of our State and its future prosperity will be 
jeopardized beyond calculation in the election of Mr. Pomeroy. 
We have attentively, patiently, and cliaritably examined his 
whole Senatorial career, and find it marked with selfishness 
throughout, from first to last ; so much so that the important 
interests of the State cannot be safely transmitted to his 
hands. — Nemaha Courier. 



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THREATS. 

An enraged Pomeroy scribbler writes all the way from 
Washington to the Atchison Free Press that the "authors 
of the Political Record of S. C. Pomeroy dare not show their 
heads in the Mississippi valley." We do not know what 
the fellow means by the word dare, for our head is always to 
be seen wherever our body carries it, and as to the particular 
locality of the " Mississippi valley," we do not know that it 
should be unsafe there more than elsewhere. And, right 
here and now, we wish Mr. Pomeroy's private Secretary to 
understand that we are not to be intimidated by his threats 
of personal violence. 

We have fought border ruffians, rebels, and Pomeroy's 
satraps; have always come out victorious; and it is altogether 
too late in the day to fear mere threats. 

In conclusion, we can inform Senator Pomeroy's bluster- 
ing, threatening friend that if he wishes to begin the fight 
with the original authors of the pamphlet entitled "The 
Political Record of Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, as shown by his own 
Party Newspaper Press," he cannot begin too soon. We 
will inform them who they are and where he can find them. 

They are the editors, proprietors, correspondents, and re- 
porters of the Troy Reporter. Missouri Democrat, Nemaha 
Courier, Iron Age, Ilocky 3Iountain News, Lawrence Tribune, 
Marysville Enterprise, Wyandotte Gazette, Leavemvorth Times, 
New York Tribune, and the Congressional Globe. 

When the Pomeroy scribbler annihilates the above-named, 
" may we be there to see." — Nemaha Courier. 



CHRISTMAS READING. 

We learn from Topeka that the Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, our 
Senator in Congress, has taken many of the best rooms in 
that city, to be occupied by himself and friends in making 
his senatorial campaign in the Legislature of the State, to 
meet on the 8th proximo, when he is expected to make 
another excursion into the State. 



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The demonstrations are such that many are anticipating 
the expenditure of large sums of money hy himself and 
friends, in order to secure his election, while at the same 
time he is alarming some of his competitors, who, with- 
out some word of encouragement, will, we fear, hesitate 
about entering into a contest Avitli their very confident 
antagonist. 

But we intend to do all we can to enable all who aspire 
to the honors to have a fair show, and not be overshadowed 
or awed by the money or assurances of any one. And we 
think if Senator Pomeroy has lately paid up the $25,000, 
with interest, which he drew from the United States Treasury 
about four years ago, upon the order of President Lincoln, 
to be used in the colonization of negroes under various acts 
of Congress, and which was not applied by the Senator to 
that use, and is now, or ought to be, in his hands, or rather 
in the Treasury more than three years ago, that our brethren 
who are strong in the belief of their popularity with the 
Legislature, and who will, if elected, serve the State 
faithfully and with distinguished ability, will be encouraged 
to go into the contest with great hope of success by some one 
of them over the Senator. 

But if that Government money is yet in the hands of 
Pomeroy, it cannot be denied that few of them will enter the 
contest with the courage and confidence a Kansas man should 
have. 

We don't believe he desires any advantage of his com- 
petitors, and would now willingly pay the money into the 
Treasury, if he were aware that it gave them any uneasiness 
while it is in his hands. He must reflect that no man, 
however courageous, will ever cheerfully enter into a contest 
with another who holds a naked knife in his hand. So that 
in all fairness he ought to disgorge. We shall send him the 
number of this paper with the article marked, that he may 
know the trouble he is making here among his constituents 
and contemplated rivals. 

We shall also in like manner send it to Secretary Browning 
and President Johnson, that they mav see the tribulation 



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we are in out here. To the latter we would remark that our 
people are patriotic and on solid democratic grounds, for 
equal rights and justice to all, that a large majority of them 
voted for him; and if Senator Pomeroy don't take the hint, 
and is tardy about paying over the money, he will oblige his 
many friends out here by calling his attention to the circum- 
stance, and if he succeeds in getting the money, and thinks 
that upon principles of justice we are entitled to anything 
for collecting it, two and a half per cent, of the amount will 
satisfy us — and that will be but a small part of the interest 
which tlie Senator has realized, and will doubtless pay. 

We will add that the jjeople are paying heavy taxes, and 
would like to see all outstanding dues to the Treasury paid 
up, and so relieve them as much as possible. 

To Senator Pomeroy we will say that nothing personal is 
intended in this article, but your competitors don't want 
that money in your hands when you come out here. The}' 
don't breathe easy while you have it. Send us a certified 
copy of the prompt payment by you, and we will publish it, 
and then all will feel they have a fair chance ; and don't 
come out and occupy those rooms without your settlement 
should be receipted in full. Don't, if you please, come out 
here to carry off the honors of the State till you have walked 
up to the captain's office and settled. — Leaveniuortli Daily 
Times. 



OPEN WORK. 



There is one thing we, the people of Kansas, have not 
learned, and that is to respect ourselves. This may sound 
strange, or seem harsh ; nevertheless, the remark is true. 
Count your members of Congress, and where are they ? 
Count the candidates for office, and ask, too, where are they ? 
The defeated, with rare exceptions, all gone ; far away from 
us ; not of or for us. 

We recall these facts, not to censure, not to berate the 
defeated, but to encourage home feeling, home virtues, and 
the defence of home men. 



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Shall we permit Kansas to be made a play ground lor 
politicians. 

Just think of it ! Here comes, or tliere appears a full 
blooded radical, and these radicals are from New York or 
Indiana. The gift of gab is theirs. Their speech is ultra as 
Wendell Phillips, or as decided as Garrison. They run for 
office ; if successful, they remain ; if not, they emigrate ! 

The home man comes up. He feels as a home man should 
feel ; has home-bred virtues ; is true as steel to the cause. 
Shall he be flouted ? Shall he hear only the voice of discour- 
agement? Shall the trader in politics, if more brilliant, or 
the speculator in party, if more cunning, overthrow him? 
Yet, to some extent, this lias been the course, almost the 
policy of all parties in Kansas, for the past few years. 

We do not care to whom these remarks may apply ; to 
Senator, Member of Congress, or State officer. If tliey apply, 
let the application stick as a plaster. 

Take in this view, Senator Pomeroy. 

If legally a representative of Kansas, he is, nevertheless, 
in heart, spirit, purpose, a Massachusetts man. Let him be 
defeated this winter, and never, in our belief, will he be a 
permanent citizen of Kansas. We have come to this conclu- 
sion, not from gossip_, not through his opponents, but from 
six years' experience, from his life action during that period, 
and from all those considerations which, socially and materi- 
ally connect, or fail to connect, a man with a State, to 
identify him, or fail to identify him, as one oi its own. 

To test the point, let us ask, has Senator Pomeroy stood by 
Kansas as Senator Sumner has stood by Massachusetts? Is 
the former hnown here as the latter is/e?^ there ? Not at all ! 
All through the six senatorial years Senator Pomeroy has 
represented our young commonwealth, he has been unfelt in 
it ; unknown to it ; was and \s foreign to its soil and people. 

We want no overblown notions of State Sovereignty; we 
despise the very phrase ; but we do want a love of home-bred 
rights, a defence of home men, a concentrated and earnest 
love of home interests consecrated by home feeling, as an 



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instinct, as it were, with all true hearted Kansans. We want 
this, and with it, as we have it, a love of Liberty which will 
wrestle with wrong, or battle with injustice, until the prin- 
ciple of right itself shall be made universal. — Leavemvorth 
Daily Times. 

THE FAMINE. 

Talking with the majority of the excursionists who have 
visited us lately, we found that the idea uppermost in their 
minds was the famine year of Kansas. 

" Will you not," was the question asked, "be subject to 
periodical returns of this fearful disaster?" 

The chief interrogator was a minister ; guileless, simple 
minded, true hearted ; a good man, who had come out to see 
the West at the invitation of Senator Pomeroy, and of course, 
the Senator being very pious, his friend. 

Said we in reply, '' A senatorial contest was pending in 
Kansas ; had it not been for that, you would heard of no 
distress in Kansas, and we should have had no reported 
famine year." 

" You astonish me," answered the good hearted preacher. 

" Very likely." we rejoined. ''But this country produced 
a full half crop that year, and the State, (for there was distress 
in certain portions of it, as happened to Illinois, and other 
western commonwealths) could have taken care of its own, 
without a dollar of aid from abroad." 

Astonishment in his face, and a half suspicious look in the 
good man's eye, the good man, after a pause_, queried thus : 
"Do you mean to say that there was no cause for that 
appeal?" 

"We do," we responded. "Further we say, that we 
believe the cry of distress would never have been made, if a 
senatorial contest had not been pending." 

"You surprise me," ejaculated the good man, and after 
that, said no more ! 

The past is gone. We forget it often, and act as if it had 
no lesson to teach. Yet, how we see, as all can see, who have 
their eyes open, that the famine year has been a continued 



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curse to Kansas ; that it has kept away thousands of emi- 
grants, that even now, the great fear as to our State and its 
climate, grows out of selfish excitement and venal play of 
passion, caused or created chiefly for selfish and venal ends. 

We were pinched, that is true ; the seasons bore hardly 
against us, that all know ; yet we supposed more, because 
we were a young territory, with more people to feed than we 
had means to feed them with, than from any other cause. 
Still, that suffering we could have relieved ourselves without 
asking a dime from any other State. 

Senator Pomeroy reaped the full benefit of the famine year ; 
the injury to the State remains. He was elevated to a seat 
in the Senate ; Kansas suflers yet through the cause of his 
success. Had we not an abiding faith in humanity ? Did we 
not feel that above individuals there was a power elavating 
and advancing society everywhere, we should doubt alike the 
present and the future. For what is humanity, v/hen the 
politicians shall play with its best and noblest feelings for 
pelf or self? What religion, when its professors shall use 
its cloak to do earth's darkest and most devilish deeds? 
But, after all, there remains — there is truth, with all its 
simplicity, with its invincible power, and silently, it maybe, 
but surely, it moulds and makes— purifies society, as water 
purifies itself. 

The injury done through Senator Pomeroy by the famine 
cry, eventuated in his personal success, though the State has 
not yet recovered from its eftect. It may be, however, that 
the people will understand the cause. If so, they will be 
wise in their 2;eneration. — Leavenivorth Times. 



PARDONED. 

Upon the recommendation of Senator Pomeroy, loho made 
a personal application to the F resident for the pardon of Lewis 
31. Coxsetta of South Carolina, a privateersman during the 
late war, the latter has received the desired Executive clem- 
ency. This is the first and only case of any officer of that 
condition having been pardoned by the President. — Neio 
York Tribune. 



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FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. 

As the friends of other candidates have seen proper to say 
hard things, without a shadow of proof, against Mr. Carney, 
we desire to state a few facts, simply that justice may be done, 
and not for the purpose of injuring others — a system of war- 
fare utterly at variance with good feeling, good policy, or 
good sense, where all are of one party. We should all work 
so that in the end there will be harmony, not acrimony and 
rancorous feeling. 

Mr. Carney was Governor of Kansas for two years, and the 
most bitter malignity has not only failed to discover a stain 
upon his administration , but the attempt to find fault resulted 
in establishing the fact that his administration of the aifairs 
of the State was eminently wise, judicious, and patriotic. A 
bitter outcry was raised against him in consequence of the 
premature election to the United States Senate — against his 
judgment — and a Legislature elected largely opposed to that 
measure, numbers of whom were decidedly hostile to Mr. C. 
But this body, acting under the solemn sanctions of their 
oaths, after the most careful scrutiny into the acts of his 
administration from first to last, unanimously endorsed it as 
being luise and patriotic. This, certainly, should satisfy the 
most skeptical as to Mr. Carney's official career. His enemies 
themselves being judges, he is lauded for his services as Chief 
Magistrate of the commonwealth. 

Many stories have been set afloat since then touching Mr. 
C. But in tracing them up, we have found them the out- 
growth of malice, malignity, and personal hate. 

Some have thought him too conservative. But it is a fact 
worthy of note, that in his annual message to the Legislature, 
he took advance ground on the leading questions of the times. 
He submitted his message to leading men of the Kepublican 
party, and at their request, /or the good of the party, as they 
claimed, (and doubtless honestly believed) he struck out one 
of the most radical parts of the message before submitting it 
to the Legislature. Some of the men icho advised the Governor 
to strike oid that part of his message, and to ivhose judgment he 
then acceded, noiv charge that he is not Radical enough ! So the 
world goes ! 



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We know Mr. Carney to be radical in his views — more 
thoroughly so than many who charge him with conservatism. 
He is not a whit behind the leading minds of the Republican 
party in his firm adherence to the principles of liberty and 
progress, and if elected to the Senate, would never betray his 
constituents — never. This much for his official record — 
which all, even his enemies^ admit it without a blemish — and 
his political sentiments. And we do not speak at random. 

As to material interests, no man in Kansas is better quali- 
fied to look after them. His position as a business man to-day 
demonstrates this fact. He would probably do more for us in 
this direction — which is of vital importance now — than an}-- 
other man ; and being fully reliable on other matters, there 
is no reason at all for the wicked charges made against him 
by personal enemies and political antagonists. And we do 
hope that liereafter the policy of slandering one candidate 
to further the interests of another will be abandoned as un- 
worthy of gentlemen and Eepublicans. 

We make these remarks not as the chamjDion of Mr. Carney, 
but as a simple act of justice, having always detested unfair- 
ness and despised malignity in the conduct of a political 
contest. '' Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." — 
Oskaloosa Independent. 



SENATOR POMEROY'S RAILROAD. 

Mr. Pomeroy holds a large pecuniary interest in the Atch- 
ison and Pike's Peak railroad, and to take care of that in- 
terest and to serve his Boston friends, who appear to have 
an unspeakable influence over him, lie has unmistakably 
become the foe to the best interests of the State. 

It is w^ith no satisfaction that we find it our duty, as 
faithful journalists, to allude to this matter and bring it 
prominently before the people of the State. Since the de- 
termination of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern 
Division, to extend its road by the Smoky Hill route directly 
through the State, giving us some two hundred miles more 
of road and securing the trade of New Mexico and all the 
southwest, this enterprise has met with the sturdy and con- 



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stant opposition of Mr. Poraeroy. We cannot forget how at 
the last session, day after day, he opposed a vote upon the 
bill in the Senate, when warned by those faithful and true 
Senators, Howard, of Michigau, and Sherman, of Ohio, that 
his opposition to the vote being taken might defeat the bill, 
and how, having wasted much time in factious opposition, 
his colleague, Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, came to his 
aid, and spoke a day in the Boston interests, and how, 
finally, when all expedients failed, he took his hat and left 
the Senate, refusing Kansas his vote, because, we will not 
say, too faithless to his Boston friends to vote against the bill. 
Senator Lane, always true to Kansas interests, was absent; 
we all knew the reason why; and the vote was taken in the 
Senate which gave Kansas two hundred miles of railroad 
and secured to her incalculable advantages, and yet Kansas 
had no vote in the Senate for it. 

It is with deep regret that we felt it our duty to pen this 
article, but Mr. Pomeroy is now a candidate for further sen- 
atorial honors, and we cannot withhold his dereliction of 
duty from the people. And when we reflect that through 
his recreancy the paramount interests of the State were so 
greatly imperilled, because they came in conflict with the 
personal interests of our Senator and his eastern friends, we 
have no words to express our gratitude to our true friends, 
Messrs. Howard and Sherman, by whose steadfastness the 
bill passed the Senate by a vote of twenty to twelve, 3L\ 
Pomeroy not voting .'—Leavemvorth Times. 



POMEROY IN THE SENATE. 
A prominent citizen of Kansas, now in Washington, in a 
private letter to us, thus speaks of the standing and influence 
of Senator Pomeroy among his colleagues: "If all the 
members of the Kansas Legislature could be here, there would 
be no sort of doubt of Pomeroy 's election. It may appear 
strange to some, but it is a fact that there is a greater desire 
here that Pomeroy should be returned than is felt for the 
return of any other Senator whose time expires on the Fourth 
of March next — twice as much as there is for Trumbull. As 



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a Senator said to me the other day, " Trumbull sometimes 
makes mistakes in his votes — Pomeroy never does, when the 
principles of freedom are at stake. He was educated in 
Kansas before he came here. ' ' And so it is. Pomeroy is kind 
to all, quarrels with none ; lives hospitably, though plainly, 
and all like him. He has a powerful influence in the Senate. 
— Atddson Free Press. 

THE AUTHOR OF IT. 

Senator Pomeroy, from Atchison, has been luriting '■^probate 
leliers" to citizens of the "Northern Tier/' assuring them 
that he is very much interested in our railroad, and is doing 
all in his power to get a grant of land to aid in constructing 
it. His ^^ letters" are all just alike, being copied from a 
carefully prepared form, stereotyped for the purpose, in order 
to humbug the people of the Northern Tier into believing that 
if we are ever blessed with a railroad at all, it will be owing 
to his masterly exertions in our behalf! He says in Ms letter's, 
several copies ofivhich have been shoion to us, that he was the 
author of the recent Senate bill granting ten sections of the 
public lands per mile to this railroad, but that as a favor to 
B. Gratz Brown, he allowed him to present the bill, as Brown 
thought it would help him in northern Missouri. 

Now, we don't like to find fault with our Senator, nor are 
we going to do so, for not having expected any local favors 
from him Ave are not disappointed in the least at never 
having received any. — Troy lleporter. 



THOMAS CARNEY. 
This gentleman seems to be gaining ground in the sena- 
torial contest, from Avhat we hear. Many bitter things have 
been and are being said about him, but they tend to add 
to his strength more than they detract. Wholesale de- 
nunciation does not hurt the man at whom it is hurled. 
The facts that Leavenworth has strong claims on the Sena- 
torship and that he is the man that can unite more strength 
there than any one else are patent to all. His record as a 
public man is good, if we except the senatorial election, and 
he was not so much to blame for that as his friends. He 



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made a good governor, and has ev'^er been tlie true friend of" 
the material interests of Kansas. The White Cloud Chief, 
and perhaps some other papers, rather doubt his political 
record. 

Since Governor Carney entered public life v^^e believe he 
has been a consistent and ardent Republican. It is charged 
that he did not array himself against the President quite 
quick enough. We know that Governor Carney had strong 
hopes of retaining Mr. Johnson, and preventing the rupture 
between Congress and the President, after many of us had 
given up all hope of such results. Mr. Carney certainly 
occupied no worse position in this matter than Governor 
Crawford, whom the people have endorsed so handsomely. 
The editor of the Chief himself voted against the Eskridge 
resolutions, censuring the President, in tlie State Senate. 

The fight over the Senatorship in the north part of the 
State is not particularly ours, and we feel like letting them 
manage the matter up that way ; but it does seem to us that 
a live man who lives in tlie State, and has all his means in- 
vested in Kansas, and who has worked for her and given 
thousands of dollars for her up-building, is preferable to a 
man who does not live in the State, and who will, if elected, 
not reside in Kansas six months of the term, all put together. 

Of course we are for our Neosho Valley interests above 
those of anybody else, and want to see our men succeed, 
whoever may be picked upon as the candidate. Do not our 
interests lie as much Avitli Leavenworth as with Atchison? 
We are inclined to think they do. All things considered, if 
our interests can just as well be subserved by Mr. Carney, 
we rather prefer him for Senator. He is a live man, and is 
acquainted with the history and wants of the State, and is 
trustworthy, we believe, in all respects. — Kansas Radical. 



In a most trying hour, when Kansas was about to reap 
incalculable advantages from the legislation in Congress, 
Pomeroy^ influenced by his personal interests in the A. & 
P. P. Pi., deserted his post, and failed the State in his support. 

The occasion came and the trial was had, and he had not 
the fortitude or fidelity to stand by his duty or Kansas. He 
was weighed in the balance and found wanting ! As he 
deserted and betrayed the good Lincoln, so did he the State. 
— Leavenivorth Times. 



32 

AN INNOCENT CHAMPION. 

Emporia, December 17, 1866. 
Editor Times — I notice in the Atchison Champion, Senator 
Pomeroy's special mouthpiece, under the liead of "^ GLass 
Houses, and Otiier Things," a column of slanderous charges 
against Governor Carney, accusing him with nearly every 
possible crime ; but, nevertheless, it makes the following ad- 
mission near the close : 

" We have no wish to indulge in such controversies as these, nor have we any 
disposition to drag Mr. Carney's reputation before the public. We will do him 
the justice to say that we do not know whether a single one of the many charges 
made against him, of using money to control elections, is either true or false. 
And further knowing, as we do, how prolific in falsehoods is a bitter political 
struggle, we make all due allowances for this fact." 

Nevertheless, after the above admission, the Champion 
returns again to the charges (which he admits, in the same 
article, that he does not know whether they are true or false) 
as follows : 

"That we have said nothing of Mr. Carney's reputation throughout the State 
that is unwarranted by the facts, we quote, as substantiating our statements, the 
following extract from a recent article in the Ottawa Home Journal, Rev. 1. S. 
Kalloch's paper." 

Here we find the Pomeroy Cliampion bringing charges 
against Governor Carney; then admitting their falsity; then 
reiterating; and finally, as a last resort, quotes Mr. Pome- 
roy's friend Kalloch to sustain them. 

Glass houses and other things, indeed. What other 
things, pray? Messrs. Pomeroy and Kalloch, of Boston, 
perhaps ! What says the Champion^ 

Yours, very respectfully, A CARNEY MAN. 



Next November Kansas elects State Officers, Members of 
Congress, and a Legislature, which is to choose both her 
United States Senators. We trust she will oust all the thieves, 
discomfit all the corrupt, ^^ rings," and choose no man to any 
position whose personal integrity is not above suspicion. 

Rumors of corruption among her high officials have long- 
been a shame and a sorrow to the historic young State, whose 
fidelity and courage never wavered, either in her early strug- 
gle with the Slave Power, or during the Great Rebellion. 
The standard of intelligence and integrity is high among her 
people, and ought to he among her public men.— New York 
Tribune. 



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